I've never had a problem flushing them. I feel like it's kind of gross to do anything but that. Who wants one sitting in the bathroom garbage? How much TP does it take to wrap that up anyway so that someone else wouldn't be totally grossed out looking in the trash?

I always flushed until I had the very embarrasing experience of having a plumber show me a pile of old tampons he pulled out of one of our pipes. Asshole plumber he was. I toss now though.

I buy the bio-degradable tampons and applicators, it all goes down the toilet.

BTW hate the women who take them out and don't actually flush in public restrooms, EWWWWW!!!!

Burgundy washcloth... need I say more?

Compost-but then I only use tampons that I've grown in my own organic cotton garden. I also never breathe in when in the city proper-my kids don't either. All that pollution and politics-it's just unhealthy.

20:47 - my thoughts exactly.

HA!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RLXfxtouE

if it's a Kohler . . ..

Anonymous wrote:Yes PP. I flush paper towels, diapers, wet rags, trash bags...why just about everything!

you dumbass.

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I thought tampons were biodegradable.

I mean if a huge piece of crap can go down . . .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It never dawned on me to toss them. I have been flushing them for 30 years!!!

is this even serious? you never read the signs beggin women to dispose of them in the garbage and not fluhing?

I always read the signs as saying not to flush the applicators. But, that it was fine to flush the tampons. I'd never flush the plastic applicators, but thought nothing of flushing the tampons.

toss at home or in places with places to toss. flush when there's no place else to put it.

20:17 - by the time you're done using your tampon it no longer has the ability to expand.

but I'm just a stupid flusher, what do I know!

Yes PP. I flush paper towels, diapers, wet rags, trash bags...why just about everything!

you dumbass.

I would have thought that common sense would dictate that you should not flush a device that is engineered to expand when it comes into contact with fluid...but hey, education being what it is in this country.

For all the flushers--do you also flush paper towels?

My husband's plumber friend calls tampons "red rats" and gets a LOT of calls about them. Eventually, over time, they will either screw up your pipes or the municipal pipes.

I have always flushed them unless the place I'm at is pretty old and I don't trust the plumbing. I had no idea this was a problem.